Re: Fly the American Flag, on Sept 11th:

[toggleswitch]

Heaven is your own laundry room; perfeclty executed.

Don't all road lead to Rome?

My own personal brand of "voodoo" is technically labeled "Eastern" (as opposed to Western).

I believe it is a more wide-held belief in the East that that is more than one path to the "laundry room."

 

[peterh770]

I was watching some video from 9/11 on U-Tube this morning. Man, that was/is some scary stuff.

 

[toggleswitch]

Time heals everything, at least partially.

Due to my geographical location the twin-towers are (*ugh were*) very real to me. I wasn't the mushy-gushy type, but only lately can I watch the horror of those videos and not break out into tears.

Of all the events of that day the clincher?

Finally getting home from Manhattan, in a desserted city Manhattan is NEVER empty) getting to my car from the Long Island Railroad, only to find that NONE of the customary radio stations was on the dial in the right place. Stranger even was that TELEVISION stations broadcasting over the radio. Don't know why this affected me. Oh I guess the Emergency Broadcast System actually being used was bizarre to me as well.

The magnitude and repercusiions of the day took a few days to REALLY sink-in, in my head.

The land-line phones were out for other reasons, cell (mobile) phones were jammed and uselss. The only way to get in touch for me was AOL. Radios had been banned in my office a mere week prior.

 

[bajaespuma]

Wake-up call.

Rather than flying the flag of a guilty government,join me in saying prayers for ever soul who suffered on that day, and if you think about it, I don't know who didn't.

Steve, I was moved by your account because I had a similar realization later. Did any of you notice that for three weeks after 9.11 Britney, Paris and all of the other stupid celebrity news mercifully disappeared from all of the air waves? It was as if the nation woke up for a three week period(we had no choice). And then Bush and his cronies took over and we all fell back to sleep and have remained in that political and sociological coma ever since.

 

[mrsalvo]

Just taking time out today to remember the horrific attack on our people. There sure was alot of people that died and all they did was just go to work. Just on their way to work.

Helps to keep things in perspective.

 

[toggleswitch]

A hole instead of two *poles*.

~Due to my geographical location the twin-towers are (*ugh were*) very real to me.

As you may know New York City is at the very southern-most tip of New York State. Northern New Jersey and Southern Connecticut are considered suburbs of NYC, as of course are Long Island and parts of New York State itself.

When returning to NYC from nearby New Jersey via the NJ Turnpike, (a huge, long and wide main artery) it was very comforting to see the tall majestic one-of-kind twin-towers defining lower Manhattan. IT was also geographically orienting. To this day, so many years later, there is just something missing in that spot.

Personally I would have built hollow facsimilies with just a "few" score(s) of occupied levels.

The link is supposed to be:
A funny picture showing the World Trade Center rebuilt in the shape of a middle finger. Sorry about the flag-waving. What can I say.

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http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blnewwtc2.htm

 

[toggleswitch]

I don't DO poltics

oy vey. Didn't see all those political jokes.
My apologies. Don't need to trigger another political screaming match here!

 

[dalangdon]

The interesting thing about the WTC was that I don't think they ever experienced full capacity. They were poorly designed - as only a commercial office complex designed by a government entity could be, lol - and even tenants who located there in the beginning tended to move out, or only leave a small presence there for the cache of the address. There were a few big brokerage firms and such, but it was never really a successful enterprise.

I remember for years the office of the New York State Insurance Commissioner - hardly a glamourous place - was on a few of the very top floors of one of the towers because the rent was so cheap.

But the view from the observation deck was grand. And the towers certainly were landmarks. And the bar (wild blue yonder? World's greatest bar? I can't remember) was a lot of fun.

 

[perc-o-prince]

"they were going to fly their flag upside-down"

Fly it right, or don't fly it at all. There's no need to be disrespectful.

Chuck

 

[toggleswitch]

A pic I took years ago.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

Back in 1977, I had a friend who lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. HE used to say, "If God gave the world an enema, he'd insert the hose at Jersey City." Awful, ugly place.

Anyway, one time I went up for a several-day stay with him (I lived in Annapolis, Maryland at the time), and he took me in with him to his office on day ... in the World Trade Center. He worked for a shipping company. I don't remember exactly what he did but he talked a lot about "bills of lading" whatever they are.

His office was on the 77th floor of Tower 1. I'll never forget the elevator -- it took off with such a whoosh that my innards all went down into my toes! And you could just FEEL how fast it was zipping upwards. At lunch, he took me to the observation deck at the top. OH MY GOD, I still get vertigo thinking about the incredible view from up there. It truly was amazing.

One evening he took me to Greenwich Village and we went to a couple of bars, one of which was called JULIUS, the oldest gar bay in the village. We had dinner there -- humongous hamburgers that cost a humongous four bucks!

Went to another bar on Christopher Street that used to be the home of some famous old artist I think it was. Or maybe one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence? Some old fart. Can't remember now who it was. Some chunks of memory from back then have dimmed from the passage of time, helped along but a lot of substance abuse back in the day.

Of course we saw the Stonewall Inn, which was closed at the time.

I got a big laugh at the fact that there is a "Gay Street" in Greenwich Village, but my friend informed me it was named for a famous Civil War abolitionist.

And on that note, I have many Gays in my family -- on my father's side, there is a branch of the family tree whose surname is Gay. There are Gays all OVER Virginia and North and South Carolina!

Well. What a mental labyrinth this turned into! Guess I had a flashback watching that vaguely propagandic "Trip back to the 1960s......."

oooEEEooooo, Good Vibrations..............

 

[sikiguya]

What it looks like today

A picture from St Paul's, the church right next to the WTC site.

 

[sikiguya]

Rebuilding

A picture of the rebuilding on the site of the WTC.

I have about 50+ photos when we toured the area in May of this year. It was heartbreaking, especially inside St Pauls.